24 h. ago Florence Welch buys £1.9million Somerset estate and waits YEARS to move in amid major renovations AND the house might be haunted

The lead singer of indie rock band Florence and The Machine first bought the Grade II listed home in 2021 and submitted final plans last year to partially demolish buildings on the land in order to restore it.

Economics

4 d. ago UK's most haunted house was 'witch prison' but couple aren't put off by spooky 'ghosts'

A couple have bought the 'most haunted' house, as they say they want to renovate the notorious home on the site of a former medieval prison – and plan to live there

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4 w. ago Sick Lucy Letby supporters tour her old haunts and 'need to visit her house'

Convicted baby killer Lucy Letby may be behind bars, but a group of supporters have been visiting the places she used to frequent – from a pub where she once celebrated her birthday to her house

Society

4 w. ago Lucy Letby supporters on ghoulish pilgrimages to home near where she killed 7 babies

Several users on a pro-Letby Facebook group claim to take 'frequent' jaunts to her home in Chester, Cheshire - one said: 'I’ve been in Chester visiting Lucy’s old haunts, I’ll be there again – definitely want to visit the house'

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4 w. ago Streaming: Steven Soderbergh’s Presence and the best haunted house films

The director’s witty supernatural thriller joins Psycho, Hereditary, The Brutalist and more – films in which buildings are characters in their own rightThe first more-or-less horror movie in the lengthy, genre-skimming career of director Steven Soderbergh, Presence is a film about grief, trauma, familial dysfunction and abusive masculinity. But it’s also, to a significant and compelling extent, about property. Beginning with a family’s first viewing of a handsome Victorian home in an unidentified stretch of suburbia, the film never ventures outside its walls for the next 85 minutes, as the ensuing chills make us consider the merits of that purchase. Wittily and unnervingly shot from the perspective of the restless spirit roaming its halls, it’s a haunted house film in which much of the tension feels determined by the shape and flow and light and shade of the house itself. It’s a while since I’ve seen a film where I could quite so exactly draw the floor plan of its primary location, ...

Politics

last month ‘I don’t have the fear some performers have’: Americana anarcho

The Tennessee musician ran away to hop trains and drop acid, then went viral after being filmed busking. Her sterling new album features her hero Steve Ignorant – and resists the rise of the rightSunny War is calling via video from her home in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The house belonged to her grandma, then her father; he died during the making of her last album. After War and her brother moved in, she became convinced the house was haunted. She would see people and hear noises at night. “It sounded like someone was walking around, to the point that I would jump out with a machete in my hand, thinking someone had broke into the house,” she says. “It was happening all the time. I thought I was going insane in here.” It was confusing, “because I have been crazy before. And I was also drinking a lot and sometimes that makes me hallucinate.”But the apparitions weren’t ghosts, or the result of a mental health crisis, or indeed a drinking binge: “I didn’t have any money, so I couldn’t get ...

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last month ‘I ate acid for two months straight. It was the best time of my life’: Americana anarcho

She’s the finger-picking blueswoman whose life was changed by the punk band Crass – and went viral for busking while homeless. She talks about ghosts, her ‘smelly’ childhood and fighting the far rightSunny War is calling via video from her home in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The house belonged to her grandma, then her father; he died during the making of her last album. After War and her brother moved in, she became convinced the house was haunted. She would see people and hear noises at night. “It sounded like someone was walking around, to the point that I would jump out with a machete in my hand, thinking someone had broke into the house,” she says. “It was happening all the time. I thought I was going insane in here.” It was confusing, “because I have been crazy before. And I was also drinking a lot and sometimes that makes me hallucinate.”But the apparitions weren’t ghosts, or the result of a mental health crisis, or indeed a drinking binge: “I didn’t have any money, so I couldn’t ...

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